I have three DVD burners (well 4 really, but two are the same), and experience with several more.
In chronological order: I've owned: 1. Verbatim-branded Ricoh DVD+R 2.4x drive. Good drive for its time, still useful for reading DVDs, burning CD (although only 12x for CDR) and such. Even burning 2.4x +R media when I come across them. 2. Pioneer DVR-106 (or A06, same drive) The best drive, IMHO. Burns reliable, rock steady even, often able to do 4x on 2x media with no problems, and 2x on 1x media, same. Also Mac compatible for iDVD if installed as an internal drive (not on firewire though). 3. Optorite 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD-R, "hd burn" for CDR. Not much experience with this drive yet, seems unstable on the 8x burning, and "hd burn" seems like a pile of crap. But 4x burning works well on +r and -r media, and 24x cd burning is nice. I've worked with: 1. Pioneer DVR-A03 and A04. Good drives, solid 2x -R performers. 2. NEC 1300a. Cheap drive. Stay away, it's finicky about media. It can make good 4x burns, but it's much more picky and won't burn reliably on some media that the 106 burns perfectly. 3. Sony ???. Sonys are good solid burners.
So what I'd recommend right now is the Pioneer A07/107 which is just coming out, it will have the capability for dual layer DVD burning, as well as 8x burning for + and -R media! Good times all around!
Well, I don't use those all-in-one packages so I have no experience with them but I've had great luck just using dvd-decrypter to rip, dvd2one for compression when necessary, and nero to burn the resultant "backup" copy out to a blank.
And the Pioneer DVR-A07: http://www.esbuy.com/pioneerdvra07.html
Note that I'm not recommending for or against this site, just showing that the product does appear to be available from various places. And at $165 for the DVR-107 internal drive, it's not even a bad price!
I have no experience with DVD burners, so thanks for asking about them. On the other hand, the sale-bill from Wal-mart that was in my mailbox yesterday had a LiteOn DVD+/-R/RW burner for $98.90. Given that I've not heard of LiteOn before, I imagine it is a lower-end model. But if you're just looking to experiment with one, it might be a decent starter model.
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In chronological order: I've owned:
1. Verbatim-branded Ricoh DVD+R 2.4x drive. Good drive for its time, still useful for reading DVDs, burning CD (although only 12x for CDR) and such. Even burning 2.4x +R media when I come across them.
2. Pioneer DVR-106 (or A06, same drive) The best drive, IMHO. Burns reliable, rock steady even, often able to do 4x on 2x media with no problems, and 2x on 1x media, same. Also Mac compatible for iDVD if installed as an internal drive (not on firewire though).
3. Optorite 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD-R, "hd burn" for CDR. Not much experience with this drive yet, seems unstable on the 8x burning, and "hd burn" seems like a pile of crap. But 4x burning works well on +r and -r media, and 24x cd burning is nice.
I've worked with:
1. Pioneer DVR-A03 and A04. Good drives, solid 2x -R performers.
2. NEC 1300a. Cheap drive. Stay away, it's finicky about media. It can make good 4x burns, but it's much more picky and won't burn reliably on some media that the 106 burns perfectly.
3. Sony ???. Sonys are good solid burners.
So what I'd recommend right now is the Pioneer A07/107 which is just coming out, it will have the capability for dual layer DVD burning, as well as 8x burning for + and -R media! Good times all around!
Re: I have 3
When is the new Pioneer coming out? I'm not seeing it online...
I was going to hurry up and get DVD X Copy, because apparently it's very good DVD backups, and may be yanked off the market soon.
Re: I have 3
And the Pioneer DVR-A07:
http://www.esbuy.com/pioneerdvra07.html
Note that I'm not recommending for or against this site, just showing that the product does appear to be available from various places. And at $165 for the DVR-107 internal drive, it's not even a bad price!
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